Anyone Notice Anything Magical About the Cover of Bob Woodward’s New Book?

Finally! A name and a face for Bob Woodward’s hotly anticipated new Obama book. According to an announcement by Simon & Schuster this afternoon,the book will be titled Obama’s Wars and focus on the president’s foreign policy, particularly his military strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Its cover does not, unfortunately, suggest the same severity and gravitas as the aforementioned prospectus. (As the idiom goes, let’s hope prospective buyers will judge the book by its content—or at least the outsize reputation of its author—rather than by its cover.) After spending several minutes attempting to deduce whether the alleged cover posted on The Washington Post’s Web site was not a terribly Photoshopped practical joke, we eventually convinced ourselves of its veracity after reading that the Associated Press was also vouching for its legitimacy. Still, is this not more disturbing than if the media were just momentarily misled by a dummy cover? How could no one at Simon & Schuster have noticed the similarity with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?